Tahlia Baumann Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Providing services in biological, psychological, and social environments to support health and wellbeing through intervention, therapy, education, consultation, collaboration, and advocacy.• Maximising independence, health, and social participation for individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions using individualised therapeutic interventions.• Providing psychological therapy for various client concerns such as adjustment, coping skills, lifestyle transitions, treatment adherence, grief, mood, trauma, self-esteem, family relationships, and employment.• Developing and delivering interventions within workplace systems to enhance psychosocial safety (e.g., leadership empowerment, skills-building, preventative health initiatives).• Improving return-to-work outcomes after physical or psychological injuries by collaborating with treating teams and stakeholders (e.g., insurers, RTW providers).Completed registrar program in Health Psychology from 2022-2024.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Provided assessment and direct referral to various NGO and Queensland Health Alcohol and Drug services for different treatment types, including counselling, withdrawal management and residential rehabilitation.• Provided tele-counselling services to individuals and their families experiencing challenges with their substance use.• Provided information on the safe disposal of injecting equipment.• Delivered the state-wide telephone police and court diversion programs for individuals who have been diverted to the health service for minor drug offences, including assessment, information, a brief intervention and referral.• Provided ongoing support to callers through brief structured interventions to support individuals to make change to substance use.• Evaluated caller experiences of ADIS' Police and Court Diversion Program through thematic analysis of qualitative data/feedback and provided recommendations for implementation.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Tutored UQ undergraduate courses COMU1030: The Psychology of Communication and PSYC2050: Learning & Cognition• Assisted students with understanding content.• Provided practical and relevant examples to consolidate learning.• Facilitated discussions and Q&A time.• Marked lab reports and assignments.• Worked in coordination with the tutoring team to deliver course content.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Conducted biopsychosocial assessments of adults living with persistent pain, including clinical interviews, mental status examinations, and psychometric testing.• Built collaborative therapeutic relationships with patients.• Developed accurate case formulations.• Provided psychological therapy to assist with a wide range of psychological difficulties relating to illness and rehabilitation (e.g., CBT, ACT, MBCT).• Developed, delivered, and evaluated evidence-based treatment plans.• Developed a university student placement manual for the organisation.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Delivered group-based MBCT to individuals living with chronic pain as part of a two-week inpatient hospital program.• Conducted individual therapy sessions with clients focused on consolidating program material, or giving further therapy as required using MBCT, CBT, ACT etc. for specific difficulties (e.g. anger management, depression and anxiety, grief and loss, role transitions).

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Provided inter-professional, therapeutic, family-centered assessments and support plans for children who have experienced prenatal alcohol exposure and possibly other adverse prenatal and postnatal experiences.• Worked inter-professionally with an OT student to provide clients with any necessary assessment, intervention, progress notes, consultation, home programming and reports.• Developed a therapy plan for each session and a progress note for each client following each session as an IP team.• Conducted neuropsychological assessments with clients (e.g., WISC, WRAML, TEA-ch) as well as an evaluation session will be with the families/caregivers and the children to discuss the assessment, recommendations and to plan for ongoing services.• Initial information gathering and planning session with the families at the commencement of therapy.• Contributed data to UQ Child Health Research Centre research on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Worked in the user-engagement team for the WIRED Project, an app-based intervention to prevent eating disorders and reduce symptomatology.• Development of social media content to engage young people experiencing disordered eating behaviours and negative body image.• Conducted focus interviews with people with lived experience to ascertain the specific needs of a population that need to be targeted in web-based interventions to reduce eating disorders (including men, women, and LGBTQIA* populations).• Developed a broader health messaging strategy based on psychological literature and qualitative data sourced through investigation as part of the WIRED Project.

University Of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

• Assisted with conducting systematic reviews and the development of manuals and other resources.• Gained experience with research design, SR protocols, registering SRs on PROSPERO.

Brisbane, Australia

• Provided behaviour therapy to clients between the ages of 10-25.• Provided support work services to assist clients to build their social and community participation and engagement with valued activities.• Kept the clinic informed as to what is occurring with clients briefly in writing by email after each session and plans for next session.• Maintained rapport with clients and their parents/carers/guardians.• Monitored clients for distress and if necessary provide assistance at understood level of ability.• Delivered service in accordance with NDIS procedures and funding.

Brisbane, Australia

• Compiled and maintained the PSA membership list throughout the year.• Compiled and maintained the PSA member mailing list & internal committee mailing list.• Monitored and responded to all emails sent to the PSA Committee generic inbox/passing on to appropriate committee members.• Organised all PSA Committee meetings, and recording the proceedings in minutes.• Scheduled PSA office hours with the committee each semester.• Maintained a calendar for all PSA proceedings.

This position has the main responsibility of organising the PSA Industry Night.• Contacted industry representatives and maintaining stakeholder relationships.• Maintained a strong relationship with the School of Psychology.• Organised the location and catering and gaining sponsorship money.• Sought out and advertising career-building opportunities for UQ psychology students (scholarships, internships, seminars, awareness and fundraising events, etc.).

Research Assistant on a project which investigated amygdala activation in blindsight patients.• Selected and tested stimuli.• Pilot testing stimuli.• Involved in collaboration process surrounding the project design and execution.

Brisbane, Australia

Selected to participate in the Evidn (formerly Behaviour Innovation) winter internship program.• Applied behavioural science to real world problems to generate population-level behavioural change• Worked collaboratively and individually to contribute to current BI projects spanning a variety of topics such as improving stakeholder engagement, reducing obesity prevalence in Queensland, and developing a leadership & ownership workshop for cane industry district leaders as part of project Cane Changer;• Delivered solution ideas via a range of mediums including verbal presentations, tender response, & individual consultations

Master'S Degree, Health Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychological Science (Honours)

Positive Psychology

Completed a one month exchange at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. • Gained insight into different theories, seminal scientific.